SC upholds MBBS admissions by deemed universities

10/5/2016

NEW DELHI: In a big relief to deemed universities in Maharashtra and Kerala, the Supreme Court on Wednesday refused to quash the admission process carried out by them for MBBS/BDS courses on the basis of their own counselling in defiance of the government decision for centralised counselling.

Considering that admission for over 80% of the seats has been been completed and classes have started in some deemed universities, a bench of Justice A K Sikri and Justice L Nageswara Rao upheld the admission but restrained them from holding further counselling for more intake.

"...will not disturb the admissions already made by the respondent universities... keeping in view that respondents are deemed universities," the bench said.